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...game-making companies like Milton Bradley Co. and Parker Bros, turned to cheap, cardboard-backed jigsaw. Einson-Freeman's 3,000,000 puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
...obscure corner of the Memorial Church there hangs today a cardboard plaque incribed with three names, a replica of the tablet which is soon to be placed there in memory of those who died in the Great War fighting for the German cause. The effort and financial support which have made the memorial possible are the contributions of a few individuals to a cause which they regard as just...
...name Abner Dean, made the Roosevelt mask. A doll was bought from Macy's. Christmas pies being out of season, a strawberry pie was substituted and a plum from an unemployed fruit vendor. At the plant of Powers Engraving Co. the group was posed against a yellow cardboard background before a color camera. Four exposures were made, one for each cardinal color, one for the black, upon transparent plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came out red. Next month's cover...
...Kansas City, Mr. & Mrs. William St. John had a son "the world's smallest baby"-1 lb., 14 in. Otherwise normal, the baby was nested among hot water bottles in a cardboard box, fed with a medicine dropper. Three six-foot uncles grinned. The Press, attempting to promote a competition, found a 1.19-lb. baby in Berlin, a 3-lb. baby, two months old, in Boone...
...Passionate Plumber (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in this picture (faintly derived from Her Cardboard Lover, which Leslie Howard and the late Jeanne Eagels acted on the stage) works out well. Durante is worried about his huge and remarkable nose. The nose is worried by the other characters who tweak it, pinch it, slam doors against it. Durante is an urbane but eccentric chauffeur who speaks French with a Brooklyn accent. He gets a chance to use his favorite word when Polly Moran, as a maidservant, rebuffs him with the door. ''You may think...